Direct to eBay

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Direct to eBay

• Josh McCoy
• Gillian Smith

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Motivation

• Buddha Life
• Thangka Painting
• Water color with 24kt gold paint
• 15 x 19
• 65.60

All items shown available on Third World Craft
Nepal http//www.thirdworldcraft.com/EN/
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• Copper teapot
• Highly detailed
• 12.90

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Motivation

• Kumari Mask (Living Goddess of Nepal)
• 11 x 8.6
• 3.70

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Motivation
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Solution

• Use phone to communicate directly with eBay
• Prototype
• Send MMS to server
• Server puts up auction
• MMS back to phone on auction end

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Design Decisions

• Established standards
• MMS
• IMAP/SMTP
• XML
• Simplicity
• Automation

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An Application on the Phone

• Pros
• More information
• Reliable structure for data
• Better interface
• Cons
• Distribution to users
• Programmable phone availability

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Proposed Extensions

• Remove email dependency
• Get summary of auctions statuses
• Maintain history of seller auctions
• Additional information about seller on auction
  site

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Demo